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Palestinian Football Association calls for Israel to be suspended from FIFA
Head of the Palestinian Football Association Jibril Rajoub after his speech at the FIFA congress in Moscow, June 13, 2018. (Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP)
The Palestinian football association calls for the “immediate” suspension of Israel from FIFA, football’s world governing body.
“The ball is in your court,” Palestine Football Association head Jibril Rajoub tells FIFA president Gianni Infantino at its meeting in Bangkok.
Israel immediately rejects the call as “cynical.”
“The proposal submitted by the PFA has nothing to do with the IFA and its activity,” IFA chief Shino Moshe Zuares tells the FIFA meeting.
Infantino says FIFA will hold an extraordinary session of its ruling council before July 20 to review the legal analysis and decide how to proceed.
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